From individual to population: Challenges in Medical Visualization

TL;DR

This paper reviews 30 years of medical visualization development, highlighting key trends and challenges, and discusses future research directions for the coming decade.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of medical visualization and identifies future research challenges based on historical trends.

Findings

Key developments in medical visualization over 30 years

Identification of major research challenges for the next decade

Analysis of trends shaping future medical visualization research

Abstract

In this paper, we first give a high-level overview of medical visualization development over the past 30 years, focusing on key developments and the trends that they represent. During this discussion, we will refer to a number of key papers that we have also arranged on the medical visualization research timeline. Based on the overview and our observations of the field, we then identify and discuss the medical visualization research challenges that we foresee for the coming decade.